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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
teaching hospitals, so when it offers small-group teaching and tutorials, the school draws on doctors in the affiliated hospitals,” says Garvin. “We may need to consider a similar model where faculty are heavily invested in the design of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model Canvas: Aligning Operations and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
one, though, the innovations that seemed to open up new ways of reaching voters by phone lost their effectiveness—falling victim to caller ID, do-not-call lists, and voter exhaustion with once-novel tactics like robocalls and candidate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
information has a therapeutic use, we have to make a substantial investment - $350 to $500 million - in doing the clinical trial work. From a business standpoint, we need to protect our investment." "High, upstream knowledge should not be... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Street Smarts
government agencies in 40 states and 60 countries worldwide. “Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things, but it can tell you where you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
furthering the entrepreneurial passions of its students has led to the creation of some 25 courses, research that has informed 1,300 cases, and the growth of a wide range of resources that support innovators both inside and outside of the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
strengths. "The work we are doing in technology right now is intended to open up a host of opportunities," explains Dean Clark. "Yes, we are making an extraordinary investment in hardware and software, but the real success of our endeavor... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who want to bet on the stock market. It also suggests alternative... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- News
Why New England Needs New Ideas
have to be the end of economic opportunity in a community,” they write. “History has shown us, time and again, that real opportunity doesn’t require billions of dollars of investment or the backing of Silicon Valley or Boston. Successful... View Details
Keywords: New England
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
illustration by Peter Arkle When Professor Paul Gompers began studying the venture capital industry in the late 1980s, colleagues often wondered why. “They’d say that it’s such a backwater and unimportant industry,” he recalls. With more than $127 billion View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
the conference examined the application of technology in traditional businesses and the innovations that will influence the everyday activities of a broad spectrum of companies." WSA: Focus on Work/Life Balance "Women have always been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding
Kaplan As we look to the future, it is clear that the leading MBA programs will be very different 25 years from now. The role of MBA education is changing, and HBS needs to be increasingly nimble and innovative in order to remain the... View Details
Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
tax” to mitigate the environmental impact of development through investment in conserving water-absorbing grasslands. Now the senior director of financing land conservation at investment bank Seale &... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
As president of Eos Foundation, Andrea Silbert (AB 1986, MBA 1991, MPA 1992) invests charitable dollars to help fight poverty and hunger in Massachusetts. In 2007 Silbert became president of the Boston-based philanthropic grant-making... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Leadership in Practice
His 25th Reunion gift to establish the William F. Dawson Jr. MBA Program Innovation Fund and his support for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation reflect his interest in helping MBA students develop... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
the world that has benefited everything from lemurs in Madagascar to sage grouse habitats of Wyoming, forests in New England to water quality on the Rappahannock River. Such efforts have also a spurred significant innovation in financing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
States. What’s that? Yes, R&D investment produces benefits and prosperity, but not the wide array of pluses and spill-overs offered by “venturesome consumption” of new products and services, the author contends. Citing his own research... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
chairman of global private equity investing at Goldman Sachs, Sanjeev observes, “Every business in the world is interacting with science and engineering today. There’s a tremendous need for managers to become more conversant in how... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected
research initiatives, including the new FIELD course required of all first-year students. And it increased investment in capital projects. For example, $16 million went to renovating the former WGBH building at 125 Western Avenue, now... View Details
- 25 Mar 2019
- News
Rent The Runway Joins the Unicorn Club
Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Photo via Forbes, courtesy of Rent the Runway Rent the Runway’s latest fundraising round—a $125 million investment led by Bain Capital Ventures and Franklin Templeton Investments—has pushed... View Details